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@UFWupdates And to think that my canvas director brought us inside when it reached the mid-80s. Utterly unconscionable to make them work in that heat.

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Watching the RNC convention (in small, gross doses), I am kinda loving noticing how easily Laura Trump coukd be mistaken for a beautiful trans woman, as the nepotistic leader of that bigotted, backward party.

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Fitting to cast Kate McKinnon as Weird Barbie, as the movie is the same level of satire as an SNL parody skit, if SNL had good writers: unsubtle social critique in obsequious service of corporate masters.

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Just saw Barbie... and have to join the tiny ranks of haters. (Are there any others out there?) Greta Gerwig's feminism is just capitalist recuperation, Mattel-style.

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Yes, MAGA Republicans are semi-fascists, but Biden is delivering the most uninspiring warning.

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@mmcauliff I think a man in a supermax penitentiary can imagine that

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The IWW approached worked in Staton Island. Worker self-organization is the bomb!

https://t.co/QVeU5hclbE

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Biden needs to lean on his executive authority now. He has been delaying and underutilizing it so far. There is an enormous amount he can do on climate, student debt, immigration, cannabis, health care, and more.

Time is running out - we need to move and use alternative paths.

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That's George in high school, star player

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#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd

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@beka_valentine Have you been in contact with Katharina Pistor, author of The Code of Capital? It is all about how new asset classes are created through private law. I think she'd be interested in your perspective on NFTs.

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Some of the greats running for city council: Nikki Conklin, Yannette Figueroa Cole, Tessa Echeverria, Brandi Grayson, Rebecca Kemble

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There are some very progessive candidates running for Madison city council. Make sure you vote! #VoteApril6

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@CaoimhinOhaodha @GrandRadioAbyss Singer's a liberal NGO type but I respect him as at least he tries to live by his ethics. His is an ahistorical, first principles kind of reasoning that doesn't lend itself to revolutionary consciousness raising, IMO.

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@CaoimhinOhaodha @GrandRadioAbyss Uh, actually I have, especially Adorno, Marcuse, Neumann and Habermas, with varying degrees of appreciation. There's plenty of valid critiques of Enlightenment there and elsewhere, but that's not what I was hearing.

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@CaoimhinOhaodha @GrandRadioAbyss I thought the topic was interesting, but what was produced was a not an indictment of the Enlightenment; it was perfect "exhibit A" propaganda for the Alan Bloom-style elitist Right of what the Left does to a college education.

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@CaoimhinOhaodha @GrandRadioAbyss I.e. The Jews count as much as anyone else. You can't be a consistent utilitarian and have no concern for the suffering of certain people. Indeed, utilitarians had some of the first arguments against animal cruelty because animals can suffer too.

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@CaoimhinOhaodha @GrandRadioAbyss ...2) Using utilitarianism to justify the Nazi Holocaust?!!! This a reductio ad absurdum argument that is only absurd in its obfuscation of the central tenet of utilitarianism: that what makes one a subject of moral consideration is simply the ability to suffer.